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CVE-2017-9265

openvswitch: Buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message

Published Modified CWE 125
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.6CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

In Open vSwitch (OvS) v2.7.0, there is a buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message sent from the controller in `lib/ofp-util.c` in the function `ofputil_pull_ofp15_group_mod`.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11openvswitch2.8.1+dfsg1-2
debian 12openvswitch2.8.1+dfsg1-2
debian 13openvswitch2.8.1+dfsg1-2
debian 14openvswitch2.8.1+dfsg1-2
echoopenvswitch2.8.1+dfsg1-2
ubuntu 16.04openvswitch2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
ubuntu 16.04-ESMopenvswitch2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
ubuntu 17.04openvswitch2.6.1-0ubuntu5.1

References

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